[mary-users] distorted sound with MBROLA voices

[dh254]

I've noticed this problem to be unix specific (or at least its not there 
on windows)... For me it wasn't a problem with MARY, but with the mbrola 
voices themselves... You might try just running mbrola outside of MARY 
to verify this... Wish I could be more helpful, but I don't have a 
solution at this point...
-DH

Luzius Thöny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with MBROLA voices: The WAV sound files produced by 
> MARY are heavily distorted. It's just the MBROLA voices that give 
> trouble, the other voices work fine.
>
> It makes no difference whether I play the sound files inside the Mary 
> Client or save them to disk and play them with a standard audio player 
> - I get the same distortion.
>
> I have tried with both Mary 3.5.0 and 3.6.0, and I have tried with 
> both Java 1.5 and Java 1.6, but I always get the same problem.
>
> The server is an AMD64 running Ubuntu Linux.
>
> There's no indication in the logfiles that anything is going wrong 
> (see below). No errors were reported when installing the MBROLA 
> voices, either.
>
> -------------- server.log------
> ...
> 2008-08-21 15:26:29,215 [RH 1] INFO  MbrolaCaller Starting Synthesis 
> with command: /opt/MARY_TTS/bin/mbrola -e 
> /opt/MARY_TTS/lib/voices/de1/de1 - -.raw
> ...
> ...
> ...
> 2008-08-21 15:26:29,332 [RH 1] INFO  RH 1       Request handled 
> successfully.
>
> -----------------------------------
>
> In case anyone is interested, here's what the distortion sounds like: 
> http://www.doink.ch/marytest-de1.wav
>
> any help is appreciated!
>
> Luzius
>
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>
> Luzius Thöny
> Institut für Computerlinguistik
> Universität Zürich
> Binzmühlestr. 14
> CH-8050 Zürich
> lthoeni at ifi.uzh.ch <mailto:lthoeni at ifi.uzh.ch>
> lucius.antonius at gmail.com
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